The 'COVID-19 Hate Crimes' Bill Is a Thought Crime Bill
Plus my interview with Larry O'Connor, the Chauvin trial, and America's Kendiization
The 'COVID-19 Hate Crimes' Bill Is a Thought Crime Bill
In the Woke America we increasingly inhabit, opposing the progressive agenda is treated as tantamount to bigotry. The modern Democratic Party's modus operandi is to play up that purported bigotry as a pretext to savage and smear political adversaries, run roughshod over our rights, and ultimately usurp power in the self-serving name of virtue and "equity."
This manifests itself in all kinds of unexpected ways, with unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
I analyze one such example, the original draft of the recently introduced "COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act" in a new piece at Newsweek.
As I wrote in part:
The original COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act defined such a hate crime as being motivated in part by "the actual or perceived relationship to the spread of COVID-19 of any person," and called for the attorney general and the secretary of health and human services to, "in coordination with the COVID-19 Health Equity Task force and community-based organizations," issue guidance on "best practices to mitigate racially discriminatory language in describing the COVID-19 pandemic."
That is, Senator Hirono's bill was not so much about hate crimes—it was about thought crimes. It aimed to chill and control speech that Senator Hirono, her 44 Senate co-sponsors and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) alike disapproved of—speech, that is, which rightly reminds us of Communist China's preeminent culpability in this year-plus global crisis.
Read the whole thing here.
Media Hits
Earlier this week, Larry O’Connor had me on his radio show to discuss Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracist America, which you can listen to here.
Yesterday on “BAD NEWS,” Emily Jashinsky and I discussed the media’s focus on the Chauvin trial, and broader exploitation of George Floyd’s death in service of the anti-cultural revolution they’ve cheered on, as well as CNN’s tanking ratings, and the latest and greatest in taxpayer-funded hackery via PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor.
Finally, on this week’s NatCon Squad, the gang touched on (i) Parler’s return to the Apple Store, (ii) the Democrats’ court packing scheme, (iii) the backlash against “anti-racism” in our schools, and (iv) the Kendiization of America.